TURN UP THE QUIET (Diana Krall)

Product Description: Diana Krall's latest album, Turn Up the Quiet, celebrates Jazz and the Great American Songbook, reuniting Diana with Grammy Award-winning producer, Tommy LiPuma. Diana Krall is the only jazz singer to have eight albums debut at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. To date, her albums have garnered five Grammy® Awards, eight Juno® Awards and have also earned nine gold, three platinum and seven multi-platinum albums. Krall's unique artistry transcends any single musical style and has made her one of the most acclaimed artists of our time.

TRACK LIST:

1. Like Someone In Love (3:16)

2. Isn't It Romantic (4:28)

3. L-O-V-E (4:21)

4. Night And Day (4:38)

5. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) (3:23)

6. Moonglow (5:15)

7. Blue Skies (4:37)

8. Sway (6:12)

9. No Moon At All (4:06)

10. Dream (4:03)

11. I'll See You In My Dreams (3:53)

POLLINATOR (Blondie)

Product Description: Pollinator is Rock And Roll Hall Of Famers and NME Godlike Genius Award winners Blondie s 11th album. Pollinator has been two years in the making and follows on from 2014's 40th anniversary celebrations and the subsequent release of Ghosts Of Download . Alongside original band members Chris Stein, Debbie Harry and drummer Clem Burke, the album also features contributions from: Johnny Marr, Sia, Dev Hynes, Charli XCX, Dave Sitek (TV On The Radio), Nick Valensi (The Strokes) and The Gregory Brothers.

TRACK LIST:

1. Doom or Destiny (2:54)

2. Long Time (4:35)

3. Already Naked (4:06)

4. Fun (4:19)

5. My Monster (3:29)

6. Best Day Ever (3:58)

7. Gravity (3:47)

8. When I Gave Up on You (4:03)

9. Love Level [Explicit] (4:19)

10. Too Much (3:08)

11. Fragments [Explicit] (6:57)

CORNELL 5/8/77 - LIVE (Grateful Dead)

Product Description: Cornell 5/8/77 was recorded live directly from the soundboards by Betty Cantor-Jackson. After several years the master tapes were seemingly lost for good, but that all changed at the end of 2016. The lost tapes, or lost “Betty boards” as they are commonly known, finally made their way back home to the Grateful Dead vault, making it possible to officially bring the world this legendary show just in time for its 40th Anniversary. The complete live show has been Plangentized by Plangent Processes and remastered by GRAMMY ® award winning sound engineer, Jeffrey Norman.

SLOWDIVE (Slowdive)

Product Description: The world has finally caught up with Slowdive. A band whose reach goes far beyond just influencing music is back, with their first new album in 22 years. The album is called Slowdive - self-titled in an echo of their debut EP from 1990 - and is remarkably direct. "We were always ambitious," says frontman Neil Halstead. "Not in terms of trying to sell records, but in terms of making interesting records. Maybe, if you try and make interesting records, they're still interesting in a few years' time." Now, in 2017, the record is ready and first single from which, "Star Roving," shot to the top of the Billboard Trending 140 Chart. "There's a different energy about it," says drummer Simon Scott. "It took ages to get back together and write songs and for it to click in the studio, but this album doesn't feel like a bolt-on - it's got an energy that's as vibrant as Souvlaki and Just for a Day. It feels very relevant to now."

TRACK LIST:

1. Slomo (6:53)

2. Star Roving (5:38)

3. Don't Know Why (4:37)

4. Sugar for the Pill (4:30)

5. Everyone Knows (4:22)

6. No Longer Making Time (5:48)

7. Go Get It (6:09)

8. Falling Ashes (8:00)

SAFE HAVEN (Ruth B.)

Product Description: Safe Haven is the highly anticipated debut album from multi-platinum singer/songwriter Ruth B., who broke onto the music scene in 2016 with the single "Lost Boy," a song that not only garnered critical and commercial accolades, but also became a global radio, streaming, and video hit. "Lost Boy" was also included on Ruth's original 4 track EP release, The Intro, which set the stage for the album Safe Haven. The set is produced by Joel Little, who previously collaborated with Lorde on her multi-platinum debut, among others.

Ruth wrote and composed all 12 tracks on Safe Haven herself, and the result is a beautifully layered collection of relevant pop songs. Along with "Lost Boy," the album includes tracks like "Mixed Signals, Unrighteous," "If This Is Love," and a stunning new production of the single "Superficial Love," where the singer redefines the rules for going beyond the surface of relationships. Ruth's impactful delivery on "Superficial Love" was achieved by multi tracking her vocals, and the song will be the hit that launches this new album.

Love Hope Faith was created with some of the leading songwriters in music today, from Jeff Hyde ( Lookin for a Hand Out ) and Jeffrey Steele, Jeremy Popoff, Shane Minor, Vicky McGehee ("Bad Day feat. Rizzi Myers), to Jaren Johnston, Neil Mason and Jesse Frasure ( Dirt Road Disco ) to Walker Hayes, Thomas Archer and Marshall Altman ( No Rest ), Eric Dodd and Alex Hall ( Dynamite ) and Rodney Clawson, Chris Tompkins, David Lee Murphy ("Keepin' It Real feat. Granger Smith). Still, it is the sturdy persona of Colt Ford that gives them their consistency. There are a lot of different styles on this album, but I think my fans will hear it s just me, said Ford. As long as I remain true to myself, I can delve into all of them.

TRACK LIST:

1. Reload (feat. Taylor Ray Holbrook) (2:57)

2. Dynamite (feat. Waterloo Revival) (3:07)

3. Young Americans (feat. Charles Kelley & Josh Kelley) (2:50)

4. Dirt Road Disco (3:44)

5. 4 Lane Gone (3:51)

6. My Truck (feat. Tyler Farr) (3:26)

7. Lookin' for a Hand out (feat. Brad Paisley) (3:32)

8. Time Flies (feat. Toby Keith) (3:27)

9. No Rest (feat. Javier Colon) (3:32)

10. I'm Mud (feat. Lit) (3:14)

11. Bad Day (feat. Rizzi Myers) (3:46)

12. Drunk Girl (2:55)

13. Keepin' it Real (feat. Granger Smith) (3:23)

ALL THE BEAUTY IN THIS WHOLE LIFE (Brother Ali)

Product Description: Brother Ali is a highly respected Hip Hop artist, speaker and activist from Minneapolis, MN. His 17-year long resume includes seven critically acclaimed albums, mentorships with iconic Hip Hop legends Chuck D and Rakim, being the keynote speaker at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, international tours and sold out shows, as well as performances on late night talk shows with Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Fallon. Ali is set to return with his forthcoming album All The Beauty In This Whole Life, due for release on 5.5.2017.

TRACK LIST:

1. Pen To Paper (feat. Amir Sulaiman) (2:38)

2. Own Light (What Hearts Are For) (4:09)

3. Special Effects (feat. deM atlaS) (4:51)

4. Can't Take That Away (4:18)

5. Dear Black Son (3:52)

6. We Got This (feat. Sa-Roc) (3:01)

7. Uncle Usi Taught Me (5:54)

8. Pray For Me (3:43)

9. It Ain't Easy (3:53)

10. Never Learn (4:45)

11. Tremble (3:09)

12. Before They Called You White (3:36)

13. The Bitten Apple (feat. Idris Philips) (4:23)

14. Out Of Here (4:31)

15. All The Beauty In This Whole Life (4:47)

FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 (Chris Stapleton)

Product Description: Chris Stapleton's highly anticipated new album, From A Room: Volume 1, will be released May 5 on Mercury Records Nashville. The highly anticipated full-length record is the first new music from Stapleton since 2015's breakthrough double Platinum solo debut Traveller and will be followed by From A Room: Volume 2 coming later this year.

The album takes its name from Nashville s historic RCA Studio A, where it was recorded during the winter of 2016-17. Once again produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb, Volume 1 features eight original songs as well as a rendition of "Last Thing I Needed, First Thing This Morning," written by Gary P. Nunn and Donna Sioux Farar and made famous by Willie Nelson.

Other highlights include "Second One To Know", which Stapleton recently premiered at the 52nd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards as well as the album's first single, Either Way.

In addition to Stapleton on vocals and guitar and Cobb on acoustic guitar, the album features Morgane Stapleton on harmony vocals as well as longtime band-members J.T. Cure on bass and Derek Mixon on drums and musicians Mickey Raphael on harmonica, Robby Turner pedal steel and Mike Webb on keys.

The May 5 release of Volume 1 comes exactly two years to the day since the release of Traveller. Released to immediate widespread critical acclaim, the album had one of the best-selling first weeks by a debut country artist in 2015. Following a historic turn on the 49th Annual CMA Awards where Stapleton became the first artist to win Album of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year and New Artist of the Year at the same awards Traveller became the first album to re-enter the Billboard 200 all-genre album chart at No. 1, where it stayed for two straight weeks. The critically acclaimed album went on to win multiple Grammy and ACM Awards and was the #1 selling Country album of 2016 and the fourth-highest selling album of 2016 across all genres.

Additionally, in the past two years, Stapleton has performed on multiple national TV shows including Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and was profiled on CBS News Sunday Morning.

Stapleton is currently in the midst of an extensive U.S. tour. Chris Stapleton's All-American Road Show will span throughout 2017 and includes stops at L.A. s The Forum, Denver's Red Rocks Amphitheatre and New York's Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater and will feature Brothers Osborne, Lucie Silvas, Anderson East, Brent Cobb, Margo Price and Marty Stuart as special guests.

Of a recent performance, the Seattle Times declares, "...Stapleton dazzled the sold-out crowd with a barrage of songs that defy easy categorization while receiving the kind of deafening cheers reserved for superstars."

JOAN SHELLEY (Joan Shelley)

Product Description: In December 2016, after more than a year of touring the world behind her 2015 LP Over and Even, Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg headed a few hours north to Chicago, where they joined Jeff Tweedy in Wilco’s Loft studio for five days. Spencer Tweedy, home from college, joined on drums, while James Elkington (a collaborator to both Tweedy and Salsburg) shifted between piano and resonator guitar. Jeff added electric accents and some bass, but mostly, he helped the band stay out of its own way. “He was protecting the songs. He was stopping us before we went too far.” Shelley says. The Loft proved essential for that approach, as it was wired to capture every musical moment, so no take was lost. If, for instance, some magic happened while Spencer added drums to a tune he’d never heard, or while Elkington tinkered behind a piano, the tape was rolling. Indeed, half of these songs are first takes. “The first time is always the best. That’s when everyone’s on the edge of their seats, listening to not mess it up,” Shelley says. “They’re depending on each other to get through it.” It’s fitting that the resulting set is self-titled. These are, after all, Shelley’s most assured and complete thoughts to date, with lyrics as subtle and sensitive as her peerless voice and a band that offers support through restraint and nuance. In eleven songs, this is the sound of Joan Shelley emerging as one of music’s most expressive emotional syndicates.

TRACK LIST:

1. We'd Be Home (3:06)

2. If the Storms Never Came (2:58)

3. Where I'll Find You (3:14)

4. I Got What I Wanted (3:06)

5. Even Though (3:20)

6. I Didn't Know (2:16)

7. Go Wild (3:11)

8. The Push and Pull (2:33)

9. Pull Me Up One More Time (3:26)

10. Wild Indifference (3:02)

11. Isn't That Enough (3:46)

IN•TER A•LI•A (At the Drive-In)

Product Description: The music industry sees artists come and go on a regular basis. Plans change, life gets in the way and bands fade away. Occasionally we’re lucky enough to see an important band return from their silence: enter At The Drive In. While At The Drive In was quiet, the members (Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Tony Hajjar and Paul Hinojos) were incredibly busy, selling millions of albums, winning Grammys and putting out a lot of quality music with their other projects (The Mars Volta, Antemasque, Gone Is Gone and many more). After a 15 year break, the band returned to the studio to create the follow-up to 2000’s Relationship of Command. It’s the moment fans have been waiting for since their return to the stage as 2012 Coachella and Lollapalooza headliners…prepare for in·ter a·li·a. Produced by the band’s own Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Rich Costey (Muse, Sigur Rós, Santigold), in·ter a·li·a includes eleven songs that resonate the classic At The Drive In intensity that fans love, while breaking the band’s 15-year drought with something fresh and exciting, that slides right into 2017. Their impressive catalog has earned At The Drive In positions on the Billboard Top 200 chart, spots on various “Greatest Albums” lists, and performances on David Letterman, Jools Holland, Conan O’Brien and more. This album is sure to provide nothing less. The band will be touring throughout 2017 to support this release, as well as perform on late night television. The silence is finally broken…resume transmission.

TRACK LIST:

1. No Wolf Like The Present (3:39)

2. Continuum (4:02)

3. Tilting At The Univendor (3:26)

4. Governed By Contagions (3:27)

5. Pendulum In A Peasant Dress (3:41)

6. Incurably Innocent (3:26)

7. Call Broken Arrow (4:11)

8. Holtzclaw (3:49)

9. Torrentially Cutshaw (3:12)

10. Ghost-Tape No. 9 (4:15)

11. Hostage Stamps (3:53)

NO SHAPE (Perfume Genius)

Product Description: 2014’s Too Bright showcased Mike Hadreas stepping out saucily onto a bigger stage, expressing, with the production help of Portishead’s Adrian Utley, emotions arranged all along the slippery continuum from rage to irony to love. Here in 13 new ferocious and sophisticated tracks, Mike Hadreas and his collaborators blow through church music, makeout music, an array of the gothier radio popular formats, rhythm and blues, art pop, krautrock, queer soul, the RCA Studio B sound, and then also collect some of the sounds that only exist inside Freddy Krueger. Tremolo on the electric keys. Nightclubbing. Daywalking. Kate Bushing, Peter Greenawaying, Springsteening, Syreetaing. No Shape was produced by Blake Mills, the man behind Alabama Shakes’ Grammy Award winning album. He added precision and expansion. Some things are pretty and some are blasted beyond recongition. Records like this, records that make you feel like you’re 15 and just seeing the truth for the first time, are excessively rare. They’re here to remind you that you’re divine.

TRACK LIST:

1. Otherside (2:40)

2. Slip Away (2:45)

3. Just Like Love (3:16)

4. Go Ahead (2:53)

5. Valley (3:09)

6. Wreath (4:26)

7. Every Night (2:47)

8. Choir (2:28)

9. Die 4 You (3:32)

10. Sides (4:52)

11. Braid (2:58)

12. Run Me Through (4:45)

13. Alan (2:46)

IN SPADES (The Afghan Whigs)

Product Description: “Divination/Cleromancy/Comes the card that I refused to see” – The Afghan Whigs, “Oriole” “Cleromancy” isn’t a word one normally finds in rock lyrics. Then again, In Spades – the forthcoming album by The Afghan Whigs, from which the new song “Oriole” hails – is defined only by its own mystical inner logic. The term means to divine, in a supernatural manner, a prediction of destiny from the random casting of lots: the throwing of dice, picking a card from a deck. From its evocative cover art to the troubled spirits haunting its halls, In Spades casts a spell that challenges the listener to unpack its dark metaphors and spectral imagery. On the one hand, In Spades is as quintessentially Afghan Whigs as anything the group has ever done – fulfilling its original mandate to explore the missing link between howling Midwestern punk like Die Kreuzen and Hüsker Dü, The Temptations’ psychedelic soul symphonies, and the expansive hard-rock tapestries of Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd. At the same time, this new record continues to push beyond anything in the Whigs’ previous repertoire – another trademark, along with the explosive group dynamic captured on the recording. Indeed, the chemistry of the lineup – Dulli, guitarists Dave Rosser and Jon Skibic, drummer Patrick Keeler, multi-instrumentalist Rick Nelson, and Whigs co-founder/bassist John Curley – set the tone for In Spades’ creation. When it came to follow up the band’s triumphant return to recording – Do To the Beast (Sub Pop 2014), which was the band’s first ever Top 40 album, – the die was cast. “This is the first time since Black Love [the Whigs’ 1996 noir masterpiece] that we’ve done a full-blown band album,” Dulli says. The joys, sorrows, and upheavals of innocence and experience echo throughout In Spades: it powerfully documents where The Afghan Whigs have been, and where they might go next. For Dulli and Curley, it’s a journey that, since their origins as one of the first Sub Pop acts to be signed from outside the label’s Pacific Northwest base, has spanned decades. Dulli notes they were barely in their twenties when they first started the band, and yet here they are, fulfilling dreams long held and frequently realized. “Having a break from the Whigs helped me remember what made it so rewarding,” Curley says. “Over the course of a lifetime, there are constants, and there’s also change. You see who’s dropped off the vine – who’s going in reverse, and who’s still by your side. It’s interesting to see where life takes you, and where it doesn’t. That’s the journey and it hasn’t stopped.” In Spades was recorded at Rick Nelson’s studio Marigny Sound in New Orleans, LA.

TRACK LIST:

1. Birdland (2:49)

2. Arabian Heights (5:07)

3. Demon In Profile (3:24)

4. Toy Automatic (2:56)

5. Oriole (4:05)

6. Copernicus (3:29)

7. The Spell (3:45)

8. Light as a Feather (3:08)

9. I Got Lost (3:20)

10. Into the Floor (4:17)

TAJMO (Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo')

Product Description: TajMo marks a timely convergence of the talents of two unique American artists who've already built iconoclastic individual legacies that have extended and expanded blues traditions into adventurous new territory. The collaboration brings out the best in both artists, with the pair merging their distinctive voices, personalities and guitar styles to create vibrant, immediate music that's firmly rooted in tradition yet ruled by a playful sense of adventure. The album features guest appearances by Sheila E., Joe Walsh, Lizz Wright and Bonnie Raitt, who lends her voice to a distinctive cover of John Mayer's anthemic 'Waiting on the World to Change.'

TRACK LIST:

1. Don't Leave Me Here (5:01)

2. She Knows How To Rock Me (2:40)

3. All Around The World (3:22)

4. Om Sweet Om [feat. Lizz Wright] (3:35)

5. Shake Me In Your Arms (5:58)

6. That's Who I Am (4:16)

7. Diving Duck Blues (4:28)

8. Squeeze Box (3:16)

9. Ain't Nobody Talkin' (4:00)

10. Soul (5:59)

11. Waiting On The World To Change (2:42)

THIS OLD DOG (Mac DeMarco)

Product Description: Before you ancients out there turn your heads and scoff at the premise of a twenty-something rock-and-roll goofball calling himself an old-anything, consider this: said perpetrator, he who answers to the name Mac DeMarco, has spent the better part of his time thus far writing, recording, and releasing an album of his own music pretty much every calendar flip, and pretty much on his own. This Old Dog makes for his fifth in just over half a decade - bringing the total to 3 LPs and 2 EPs. According to the DMV, MacBriare Samuel Lanyon DeMarco is 26. But in working-dog years, ol' Mac here could easily qualify for social security. To stay gold, turns out all he needed was some new tricks.’

TRACK LIST:

1. My Old Man (3:41)

2. This Old Dog (2:30)

3. Baby You're Out (2:37)

4. For the First Time (3:02)

5. One Another (2:46)

6. Still Beating (3:01)

7. Sister (1:18)

8. Dreams from Yesterday (3:27)

9. A Wolf Who Wears Sheeps Clothes (2:49)

10. One More Love Song (4:01)

11. On the Level (3:47)

12. Moonlight on the River (7:02)

13. Watching Him Fade Away (2:23)

THE DAYS WE HAD (Day Wave)

Product Description: In 2014, Jackson Philips skipped the city of Angels and trekked north to the Bay Area after leaving Berklee School of Music. This is where he would create the Day Wave project. He has since received praise from The Los Angeles Times, Noisey, Consequence of Sound, Stereogum, The FADER, and many more in addition to early support from KCRW, Beats 1, Sirius Alt Nation, and XMU. His breakthrough single 'Gone' racked up over 6 million Spotify streams with 'Drag' following closely at over 5 million. With self-released singles and EPs under his belt, The Days We Had is his highly anticipated full length major label debut.

TRACK LIST:

1. Something Here (4:05)

2. Home (3:55)

3. Ordinary (3:25)

4. Untitled (3:40)

5. Bloom (2:33)

6. On Your Side (3:14)

7. Bring You Down (3:38)

8. Wasting Time (4:06)

9. Promises (3:16)

10. Disguise (3:13)

11. I'm Still Here (4:21)

COVER STORIES: BRANDI CARLILE CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF THE STORY (An Album to Benefit War Child)

Product Description: This year marks the 10th Anniversary of Brandi Carlile's breakthrough album The Story. To celebrate she recruited artists like Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson, Pearl Jam, The Avett Brothers, Adele and many more for this Cover Stories album to benefit the charity War Child.

Brandi describes this project as "...a David and Goliath story. Since becoming a mother, the reality of a child s beautiful little life being torn apart by war felt like too big of a problem for me. So I asked my heroes and friends to help me launch a rock at the giant that is our refugee crisis and help in the only way we know how, through the power of music."

TRACK LIST:

1. Late Morning Lullaby by Shovels & Rope (3:50)

2. The Story by Dolly Parton (4:17)

3. Turpentine by Kris Kristofferson (3:06)

4. My Song by Old Crow Medicine Show (2:49)

5. Wasted by Jim James (1:55)

6. Have You Ever by The Avett Brothers (3:16)

7. Josephine by Anderson East (3:42)

8. Losing Heart by The Secret Sisters (3:41)

9. Cannonball by Indigo Girls (3:47)

10. Until I Die by Torres (3:20)

11. Downpour by Margo Price (2:34)

12. Shadow On the Wall by Ruby Amanfu (3:34)

13. Again Today by Pearl Jam (2:44)

14. Hiding My Heart by Adele (3:25)

VERSUS (Carl Craig)

Product Description: Monumental symphonic versions of Carl Craigs classic material, re-enforced and magnified by Les Siecles Orchestra. Iconic French conductor François-Xavier Roth is at the helm of the symphony whilst InFiné mainstay Francesco Tristano supports on piano. From an initial recording in 2010, the project evolved into a full album that has been tweaked further in the studio by Craig himself. The re-works reveal the timelessness of `At Les´ and `Darkness´ through tense yet fragile new arrangements, along with two original compositions by Tristano Barcelona Trist and The Melody. Versus first took form as a captivating live concert on May 18th, 2008 at Paris Cité de la Musique, featuring this very same line-up. The hedonism of club culture made a rare incursion into the hallowed grounds of more serious traditional music, merging the vocabularies and syntaxes of two genres that seem to be from their own faraway galaxies, but actually turned out to be more porous than expected as they collided into one another. This much awaited new studio album will be available worldwide on May 5th 2017 as a 2LP gatefold vinyl and CD.

TRACK LIST:

1. Enter the Darkness

2. Darkness

3. Coding Sequence

4. Sandstorms

5. At Les

6. You're Our Best and Only Friend

7. Desire

8. Barcelona Trist

9. The Melody

10. Domina

11. Error in Replication

12. C-Beams Glitter

13. Technology

14. Coding Cycle

BEETHOVEN: MISSA SOLEMNIS, OP. 123 (Daniel Reuss)

Product Description: The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century continues along its vibrant music-making journey, very much in the spirit of its founder Frans Brüggen, but now with invited conductors. In order to tackle the mighty Missa Solemnis by Beethoven, the orchestra has gone into partnership with the highly-regarded Daniel Reuss, who has recorded a sizeable number of critically-acclaimed choral masterpieces, many of them with Cappella Amsterdam. This fine example of a Dutch chorus is possessed of all the right skills needed for climbing this glorious mountain of a work, notably vocal agility and stamina. The chorus is joined by an outstanding quartet of soloists in Carolyn Sampson, Marianne Beate Kielland, Thomas Walker and David Wilson-Johnson. The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century has had much experience already performing the music of Beethoven with period instruments (and its current concert schedule embraces symphonies, piano concertos and Fidelio), all the more necessary with a work as demanding as the Missa Solemnis (a composition dating from 1819-23).